Cascadia Pharmacy Group

A group of independent pharmacies elevating integrity and patient-centered care in their communities.

Privacy Policy

HIPAA Privacy Policy

Your Information.
Your Rights.
Our Responsibilities.

This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully.

1. Get an Electronic or Paper Copy of Your Medical Record

  • You have the right to see or receive an electronic or paper copy of your medical record and other health information we have about you.
  • Ask us how to request this information.
  • We will provide a copy or summary usually within 30 days of your request.
  • A reasonable, cost-based fee may apply.

2. Ask Us to Correct Your Medical Record

  • You can request a correction to any health information you believe is incorrect or incomplete.
  • Ask us how to submit a correction request.
  • If we deny your request, we will explain the reason in writing within 60 days.

3. Request Confidential Communications

  • You can ask us to contact you in a specific way (e.g., by home phone or office phone) or to send mail to a different address.
  • We will agree to all reasonable requests.

4. Ask Us to Limit What We Use or Share

  • You may request that we do not use or share certain health information for treatment, payment, or health care operations.
  • We are not required to agree to your request and may deny it if it could affect your care.
  • If you pay in full out-of-pocket for a health care item or service, you can ask us not to share that information with your health insurer for payment or operations.
  • We will agree to this request unless a law requires us to share the information.

5. Get a List of Those With Whom We’ve Shared Information

  • You can request an accounting of the times we’ve shared your health information in the six years prior to your request.
  • This list will include who we shared it with and why, except for disclosures related to treatment, payment, health care operations, or those made at your request.
  • The first request each year is free. We may charge a reasonable, cost-based fee for additional requests within the same 12-month period.

6. Get a Copy of This Privacy Notice

  • You can request a paper copy of this notice at any time, even if you previously agreed to receive it electronically.
  • We will promptly provide you with a printed copy.

7. Choose Someone to Act for You

  • If you have appointed someone as your medical power of attorney or legal guardian, that person may exercise your rights and make decisions about your health information.
  • We will verify the individual’s authority before acting on their request.

8. File a Complaint if You Feel Your Rights Are Violated

  • You may file a complaint with us if you believe your rights have been violated. Contact information can be found on page 1 of this notice.
  • You can also file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:
  • We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.

When You Have the Right and Choice to Tell Us “Yes” or “No”

You can tell us to:

  • Share information with your family, close friends, or others involved in your care
  • Share information in a disaster relief situation
  • Include your information in a hospital directory
  • Contact you for fundraising efforts

If you are unable to tell us your preference—for example, if you are unconscious—we may still share information if we believe it is in your best interest. We may also share information to help address a serious and imminent threat to health or safety.

Situations Where We Will Never Share Your Information Without Written Permission

We will not share your information for the following purposes unless you provide written authorization:

  • Marketing purposes
  • Sale of your information
  • Most sharing of psychotherapy notes

Fundraising Communications

  • We may contact you for fundraising efforts.
  • You have the right to ask us not to contact you again, and we will honor your request.

How We Typically Use or Share Your Health Information

We may use or share your health information in the following ways to support your care and ensure you receive the services you need.

1. Treat You

We can use your health information and share it with other professionals who are treating you.

Example: A doctor treating you for an injury may ask another doctor about your overall health condition.

2. Run Our Organization

We can use and share your health information to operate our practice, improve your care, and contact you when necessary.

Example: We use health information about you to manage your treatment and services.

3. Bill for Your Services

We can use and share your health information to bill and receive payment from health plans or other entities.

Example: We give information about you to your health insurance plan so it will pay for your services.

Other Ways We May Use or Share Your Health Information

In certain circumstances, we are allowed or required to share your health information in ways that serve the public interest, such as public health and research. Before sharing for these purposes, we must meet specific legal conditions.

For more information, visit: www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/consumers/index.html

Public Health and Safety

We may share your health information for public health activities, including:

  • Preventing or controlling disease
  • Reporting product recalls
  • Reporting adverse reactions to medications
  • Reporting suspected abuse, neglect, or domestic violence
  • Preventing or reducing serious threats to health or safety

Research

  • We may use or share your information for health-related research, following strict privacy protections.

Legal Compliance

  • We will share information as required by state or federal law, including with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to demonstrate HIPAA compliance.

Organ and Tissue Donation

  • We may share your health information with organ procurement organizations to support donation or transplantation.

Medical Examiner or Funeral Director

  • We may provide information to a coroner, medical examiner, or funeral director as necessary following a person’s death.

Workers’ Compensation, Law Enforcement, and Government Requests

We may use or share your information:

  • For workers’ compensation claims
  • For law enforcement purposes or with a law enforcement official
  • With health oversight agencies for legally authorized activities
  • For special government functions such as military, national security, and presidential protective services

Legal Proceedings

  • We may share your information in response to a court or administrative order, or in response to a subpoena.

Our Responsibilities

We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your protected health information.

  • We will notify you promptly if a breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of your information.
  • We must follow the duties and privacy practices described in this notice and provide you with a copy.
  • We will not use or share your information other than as described in this notice unless you give us written permission.
  • If you authorize us to share your information, you may revoke that permission at any time. Please notify us in writing if you change your mind.

For more information, visit: www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/consumers/noticepp.html

Changes to the Terms of This Notice
We can change the terms of this notice, and the changes will apply to all information we have about you. The new notice will be available upon request, in our office, and on our web site. This notice is effective dated June 2nd, 2025.

This Notice of Privacy Practices applies to the following organizations:
This notice applies to all Cascadia Pharmacy Group Affiliate Pharmacies which operate in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.

Website Privacy Policy

Who we are: Our website address is: https://www.cascadiapharmacygroup.com.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.